1867 – 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B. Smith of Ohio.
1910 – Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
1919 – 1st advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13)
1929 – President Herbert Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1935 – Future world heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis moves to 20-0 with 6th round KO of former champion Primo Carnera of Italy at Yankee Stadium, New York City.
1938 – “A Tisket A Tasket” by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1.
1938 – Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25 cents per hour (rising to 40 cents by 1945) and a maximum 44 hour working week.
1948 – Harry Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill (205,000 Europeans to US)
1953 – 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world in less than 100 hours.
1962 – Supreme Court rules New York school prayer unconstitutional.
1968 – Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his first major league game (San Francisco Giants)
1973 – John Dean begins testifying before Senate Watergate Committee.
1983 – “Evita” closes at Broadway Theater, New York City after 1,568 performances.
1990 – Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known.
1993 – “Late Night with David Letterman” aired for the last time on NBC-TV.
1997 – NBA Draft: Wake Forest power forward Tim Duncan first pick by San Antonio Spurs.
2000 – LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, DuPont CC: Juli Inkster goes back to back; beats Stefania Croce of Italy on second hole of a sudden-death playoff.
2014 – The Supreme Court rules that police cannot examine the digital contents of a cell phone without a court order.
2015 – The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) subsidies preserved by Supreme Court Ruling in King v Burwell 6-3.
2022 – President Joe Biden signs the “Bipartisan Safer Communications Act” into law, creating greater background checks for gun purchasers, funding for mental health programs and the closure of some existing seller loopholes.
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